Black American music : past and present
Second edition
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1992 |
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  Adams, Leslie (b. 1932) |   cast, piano |
  Ajibola, J.O. (b. 1898) |   barrister, minister |
  Akpabot, Samuel Ekpe (b. 1931) |   college professor, composer |
  Allen, Gilbert (b. 1907) |   conductor, composer |
  Amu, Ephraim (b. 1899) |   college professor, composer |
  Anderson, Thomas Jefferson (b. 1928) |   composer |
  Armstrong, Louis (b. 1900) |   cast, composer |
  Baker, David Nathaniel (b. 1931) |   bassoon, composer |
  Bankole, Ayo (b. 1935 d. 1976) |   composer |
  Basie, [William] (b. 1904 d. 1984) |   bandleader, composer |
  Bethune Greene, Thomas (b. 1849 d. 1908) |   piano, composer |
  Billups, Kenneth Browne (b. 1918 d. 1985) |   music educator, choir conductor |
  Blake, Eubie [James Hubert] (b. 1883 d. 1983) |   cast, composer |
  Bland, Ed [Edward Osmund] (b. 1946 a. 1989) |   composer, music director |
  Bland, James Allen (b. 1854 d. 1911) |   minstrel show musician, professor |
  Boatner, Edward Hammond (b. 1898 d. 1981) |   composer |
  Bradford, Alex E. (b. 1927 d. 1978) |   cantante, cast |
  Bridgetower, George (Augustus) Polgreen (b. 1779 d. 1860) |   violin |
  Brindis de Salas, Claudio Jose Domingo (b. 1800 d. 1872) |   composer, conductor |
  Brown, James (b. 1933) |   band, bass guitar |
  Brymn, Tim [James Timothy] (b. 1881 d. 1946) |   composer, lyricist |
  Burleigh, Henry Thacker (b. 1866 d. 1949) |   composer, singer |
  Burrs, Leslie S. (b. 1952) |   flute, music educator |
  Campbell, Lucie Eddie (b. 1885 d. 1963) |   composer of gospel songs |
  Carter, Warrick (b. 1942) |   arranger, composer |
  Ceron, Jose Dolores (b. 1897 d. 1969) |   composer |
  Charles, Ray (b. 1930) |   direttore d'orchestre, piano |
  Clark, Rogie (b. 1917) |   composer |
  Cleveland, James L. (b. 1932 d. 1991) |   gospel singer, composer |
  Coleman, Charles DeWitt (b. 1926 d. 1991) |   composer, organ |
  Coleman, Ornette (b. 1930) |   alto saxophone, drums |
  Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (b. 1875 d. 1912) |   composer |
  Cook, Will Marion (b. 1869 d. 1944) |   composer, director |
  Cordero, Roque (b. 1917) |   composer, conductor |
  Cunningham, Arthur H. (b. 1928) |   composer |
  Dabney, Ford T. (b. 1883 d. 1958) |   composer, lyricist |
  Dawson, William Levi (b. 1899 d. 1990) |   composer, conductor |
  De Paur, Leonard Etienne (b. 1915) |   composer, choral director |
  Dett, Robert Nathaniel (Farbiger) (b. 1882 d. 1943) |   composer, teacher |
  Diton, Carl Rossini (b. 1886 d. 1962) |   piano, composer |
  Domino, Fats (b. 1928) |   composer, lyricist |
  Donegan, Dorothy (b. 1924) |   piano, organ |
  Duncan, John (b. 1913 d. 1975) |   composer, college professor |
  El-Dabh, Halim (Abdul Messiah) (b. 1921) |   composer |
  Elie, Justin (b. 1883 d. 1931) |   conductor, composer |
  Ellington (b. 1899 d. 1974) |   composer, direttore d'orchestra |
  Euba, Akin (b. 1935) |   composer, university professor |
  Fiberesima, Adam (b. 1926) |   composer |
  Fox, Frederick Alfred (b. 1931) |   composer, lighting designer |
  Franklin, Aretha (b. 1942) |   soul singer, vocals |
  Furman, James (b. 1937 d. 1989) |   composer, music educator |
  Garcia, Juan Francisco (b. 1892 d. 1974) |   composer |
  Hailstork, Adolphus Cunningham (b. 1941) |   composer, conductor |
  Hairston, Jester Joseph (b. 1901) |   choir conductor |
  Hakim, Talib Rasul (b. 1940 d. 1988) |   composer |
  Hall, Frederick Douglass (b. 1898 d. 1982) |   music educator, composer |
  Hancock, Eugene Wilson (White) (b. 1929 d. 1994) |   music educator, organ |
  Hancock, Herbie [Herbert Jeffrey] (b. 1940) |   piano, arranger |
  Harris, Howard C. (b. 1940) |   conductor, arranger |
  Harris, Robert Allen (b. 1938) |   piano, music educator |
  Henderson, Fletcher [James Fletcher] (b. 1898 d. 1952) |   arranger, bandleader |
  Herbison, Jeraldine Saunders (b. 1941) |   violin, music educator |
  Jackson, Michael (b. 1958) |   singer, songwriter |
  Jeanty, Occide (b. 1860 d. 1936) |   military bandmaster |
  Johnson, Hall (b. 1888 d. 1970) |   choir, choral director |
  Johnson, J. Rosamond [John Rosamund] (b. 1873 d. 1954) |   composer, singer |
  Jones, Quincy (Delight) (b. 1933) |   arranger, composer |
  Joplin, Scott (b. 1868 d. 1917) |   composer, librettist |
  Kay, Ulysses (Simpson) (b. 1917 d. 1995) |   composer |
  Kennedy, Joseph J. (b. 1923) |   violin, composer |
  Kerr, Thomas Henderson (b. 1915 d. 1988) |   college professor, composer |
  King, B.B. (b. 1925) |   blues singer, guitar |
  King, Betty Jackson [Betty Lou] (b. 1928 d. 1994) |   music educator, composer |
  Lambert, Lucien Leon Guillaume (b. 1858 d. 1945) |   composer, piano |
  Lamothe, Ludovic (b. 1882 d. 1954) |   composer, piano |
  Lewis, John (Aaron) (b. 1920) |   arranger, composer |
  Logan, Wendell (Morris) (b. 1940) |   composer, music educator |
  Lovinggood, Penman (b. 1895) |   writer, singer |
  Margetson, Edward Henry (b. 1891 d. 1962) |   composer |
  McCall, Maurice Henderson (b. 1943) |   composer, music educator |
  Merrifield, Norman Lavelle (b. 1906) |   composer, arranger |
  Monk, Thelonious (Sphere) (b. 1917 d. 1982) |   piano, pianoforte |
  Moore, Carman Leroy (b. 1936) |   composer, writer |
  Moore, Dorothy Rudd (b. 1940) |   composer, soprano |
  Moore, Kermit Diton (b. 1929) |   cello, arranger |
  Morton, Jelly Roll (b. 1885 d. 1941) |   composer, music based on |
  Nelson, Oliver (Edward) (b. 1932 d. 1975) |   composer, arranger |
  Nickerson, Camille Lucie (b. 1888 d. 1982) |   piano, organ |
  Olatunji, Michael Babatunde (b. 1920) |   folk music drummer |
  Owens, Robert Lee (b. 1925) |   composer, piano |
  Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor (b. 1932) |   composer, dance arranger |
  Perry, Julia (Amanda) (b. 1924 d. 1979) |   composer, conductor |
  Peterson, Oscar (Emmanuel) (b. 1925) |   piano, pianoforte |
  Powell, Bud [Earl Rudolf] (b. 1924 d. 1966) |   bop pianist, piano |
  Price, Florence Beatrice (b. 1888 d. 1953) |   composer, arranger |
  Republicano, Assis (b. 1897 d. 1960) |   composer, conductor |
  Rivers, Clarence Joseph (b. 1931) |   composer of sacred music, priest |
  Roberts, Howard Alfred (b. 1924) |   choir conductor, music director |
  Roldan, Amadeo (b. 1900 d. 1939) |   composer, violin |
  Sancho, Ignatius (b. 1729 d. 1780) |   composer |
  Smith, Hale (b. 1925) |   composer, arranger |
  Smith, Nathaniel Clark (b. 1877 d. 1933) |   conductor, music educator |
  Southall, Mitchell Bernard (b. 1922 d. 1989) |   composer, arranger |
  Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978) |   arranger, composer |
  Swanson, Howard (b. 1907 d. 1978) |   composer |
  Tatum, Art [Arthur, Jr.] (b. 1910 d. 1956) |   piano, celeste |
  Taylor, Billy [William Edward] (b. 1921) |   piano, music educator |
  Taylor, Maude Cummings (b. 1897 d. 1984) |   composer, teacher |
  Tillis, Frederick Charles (b. 1930) |   composer, administrator |
  Tindley, Charles Albert (b. 1851 d. 1933) |   minister, composer of gospel hymns |
  Turkson, Ato Alphonso (b. 1933) |   composer |
  Waller, Fats [Thomas Wright] (b. 1904 d. 1943) |   cast, composer |
  White, Andrew Nathaniel (b. 1942) |   saxophone, composer |
  White Lafitte, Jose (Silvestre de los Dolores) (b. 1836 d. 1918) |   violin, composer |
  Williams, Clarence (b. 1898 d. 1965) |   baritone saxophone, cast |
  Williams, Mary Lou (b. 1910 d. 1981) |   arranger, cast |
  Wilson, Teddy [Theodore Shore] (b. 1912 d. 1986) |   cast, piano |
  Wonder, Stevie (b. 1950) |   composer, harmonica |
  Work, John Wesley (b. 1901 d. 1967) |   composer, scholar |